Min-Hist Biblio
Memorial to 30,000 miners. Rhondda Cynon Taff. Western Mail 13 May
2000 p 6 photo. A six foot tall miner’s lamp, lit by an eternal flame
stands in the Rhondda Heritage Park at Trehafod.
Descent / The magazine of underground exploration is published by Wild
Places Publishing. email: [log in to unmask] (154) June / July
2000
p5 Info wanted on tunnel near Dunkeld, by Greg Price.
p 5 Whoops! by Adrian Pearce. In July 1999 miners at Sexton Mining
Company, Madisonville, Kentucky holed old workings, flooded mines and
cause surface collapses.
p 7 Grimes Grave - ancient flint mine - presentation by archaeologists,
by Anon.
p 9 Greenside Mine - on display - first week in August at Glenridding
village hall, Cumbria, by Alan Speight. Recommended, I went last year,
p 12 Mining in the British Isles part 5 Lead, illus. by Chris Jones.
p12 Old Locos for new by Adrian Pearce. Clayton Equipment refurbishes
old mine locomotives. They also won an order for 20 trolley locomotives
and 250 mine cars for the Maddhapara rock mine in Bangladesh.
p 12 Welsh mines and the film industry. The Mid-Wales Film Commission
has included Cwmystwyth in its latest glossy brochure.
p 12 Mine tubs as memorials. An old tub from Denby Hall Colliery is on
permanent display in Ripley market place.
p 12 Welsh slate under change by John Knight. Gloddfa Ganol in North
Wales closed as a tourist attraction and old Holland’s Level Fawr is now
an opencast site.
p 12 Sinking to new depths by Adrian Pierce. Two 9 m diameter shafts,
over 2700 m deep have been sunk in the South Deep Gold Mine in South
Africa.
p 12 Proposed new stone mine by Adrian Pearce. Albion Stone Quarries
Ltd propose to mine Portland stone in Bowers Quarry.
p 13 Accessing the depths [Forest of Dean] by John Elliot. No access
to Blakeney Stone Mine; New gate for Trow Ditch Iron Mine; New hand line
into to Echo in Westbury Brook Iron Mine.
p 16 The northern portal is entered by Anon. Pwll Du Tram Tunnel at
Blaenavon entered. [ref Descent 153]
p 18 Sing River [mine, Mendip] one day closure by Les Williams.
p 18 Windford Redding by Les Williams. Old Iron mine, near Bristol,
gated.
pp 32 - 33 illus. Crewe caps it all by Colin Steve Knox. Whalf Mine
Engine Shaft - 58m opened.
Solne atrakcje Rumunii [Salty attractions in Rumania] by Stanislaw
Kotarba Jaskinie 4 (17) 1999 pp 25-26, map, survey, 4 colour photos.
Turda! the aptly named industrial town in north west Rumania contains a
gem, an abandoned salt mine Salina Veche Turda, dating from 1690 it is
now open to the public.
more from the web:
http://www.thirdman.swinternet.co.uk/album/mendipmining.html
A history of lead mining at Charterhouse by Richard A Derreck
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/postcard/archive/book.htm
Lightmoor Press, publishers of Achive, IA magazine.
http://ourworld .compuserve.com/homepage/SnowdoniaM.Left.htm
Sygun Mine:
http://www.pro.gov.uk.leaflets/r12142.htm
PRO - coal mining records
http://www.iriscom.co.uk/mines/
Roy’s [Fellows] mining pages: The Mining Website with a difference.
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Retired Mining Bookseller.
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